Man sentenced for starving dog

4:26 PM,
Apr. 25, 2012

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A Lockland man thanked animal rights activists and dog wardens for "sending all my family to the streets" as he was led away to the Butler County Jail Wednesday for starving and abandoning a female pit bull at Joyce Park.

Edwin Saunders, 54, was scheduled to go on trial in Hamilton Municipal Court. Instead he was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $750 after pleading guilty to charges of cruelty to a companion animal and abandoning.

Saunders also was ordered to pay almost $3,000 in restitution to the Animal Care Centers in Fairfield, which nursed the strawberry blond pit bull back to health. ...